There are currently 135 cardinals who are under age 80 and eligible to vote in the conclave, hailing from 71 different ...

As the voting to choose the next pope gets underway, serious questions loom about Europe’s future influence on the Church.

We may be stuck with labels drawn from the political world. But the cardinals who enter the conclave tomorrow need to select ...

The Catholic Church reserves the priesthood for men, so only men will choose the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.

Taking the estimated number of Catholics in a country and dividing them by the number of cardinal-electors gives some idea of ...

Catholic cardinals entering a conclave on Wednesday (May 7) to pick a new pope do not yet have a clear idea of who will ...

Monsignor Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio in Paris, when Leo XIII died in 1903, Austria decided to use the ancient right ...